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Collecting real-world mobility data is challenging. It is often fraught with privacy concerns, logistical difficulties, and inherent biases. Moreover, accurately annotating anomalies in large-scale data is nearly impossible, as it demands…

Location data can be extremely useful to study commuting patterns and disruptions, as well as to predict real-time traffic volumes. At the same time, however, the fine-grained collection of user locations raises serious privacy concerns, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Gordon Ross

Characterizing human mobility patterns is essential for understanding human behaviors and the interactions with socioeconomic and natural environment. With the continuing advancement of location and Web 2.0 technologies, location-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Feixiong Luo , Guofeng Cao , Kevin Mulligan , Xiang Li

Data-driven approaches have emerged as a popular tool for addressing challenges in urban computing. However, current research efforts have primarily focused on limited data sources, which fail to capture the complexity of urban data arising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Zhengfei Zheng , Xu Geng , Hai Yang

The problem of mapping human close-range proximity networks has been tackled using a variety of technical approaches. Wearable electronic devices, in particular, have proven to be particularly successful in a variety of settings relevant…

Human mobility data is a crucial resource for urban mobility management, but it does not come without personal reference. The implementation of security measures such as anonymization is thus needed to protect individuals' privacy. Often, a…

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The accelerated growth of mobile trajectories in location-based services brings valuable data resources to understand users' moving behaviors. Apart from recording the trajectory data, another major characteristic of these location-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Cheng Yang , Maosong Sun , Wayne Xin Zhao , Zhiyuan Liu , Edward Y. Chang

Human mobility in cities is shaped not only by visible structures such as highways, rivers, and parks but also by invisible barriers rooted in socioeconomic segregation, uneven access to amenities, and administrative divisions. Yet…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Guangyuan Weng , Minsuk Kim , Yong-Yeol Ahn , Esteban Moro

Effective driving style analysis is critical to developing human-centered intelligent driving systems that consider drivers' preferences. However, the approaches and conclusions of most related studies are diverse and inconsistent because…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Chaopeng Zhang , Wenshuo Wang , Zhaokun Chen , Junqiang Xi

One of the greatest concerns related to the popularity of GPS-enabled devices and applications is the increasing availability of the personal location information generated by them and shared with application and service providers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Luca Rossi , James Walker , Mirco Musolesi

As mobile technologies become ever more sensor-rich, portable, and ubiquitous, data captured by smart devices are lending rich insights into users' daily lives with unprecedented comprehensiveness, unobtrusiveness, and ecological validity.…

Generating realistic human flows across regions is essential for our understanding of urban structures and population activity patterns, enabling important applications in the fields of urban planning and management. However, a notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zhewei Liu , Lipai Huang , Chao Fan , Ali Mostafavi

Realistic modeling of vehicular mobility has been particularly challenging due to a lack of large libraries of measurements in the research community. In this paper we introduce a novel method for large-scale monitoring, analysis, and…

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The increasing interest in autonomous driving systems has highlighted the need for an in-depth analysis of human driving behavior in diverse scenarios. Analyzing human data is crucial for developing autonomous systems that replicate safe…

Human mobility modeling is critical for urban planning and transportation management, yet existing approaches often lack the integration capabilities needed to handle diverse data sources. We present a foundation model framework for…

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How do pedestrians choose their paths within city street networks? Researchers have tried to shed light on this matter through strictly controlled experiments, but an ultimate answer based on real-world mobility data is still lacking. Here,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-26 Christian Bongiorno , Yulun Zhou , Marta Kryven , David Theurel , Alessandro Rizzo , Paolo Santi , Joshua Tenenbaum , Carlo Ratti

Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) provide a rich foundation for modeling urban behavior through iNETs (Interest Networks), which capture how user interests are distributed throughout urban spaces. This study compares iNETs across…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Gustavo H. Santos , Myriam Delgado , Thiago H. Silva

Migration's influence in shaping population dynamics in times of impending climate and population crises exposes its crucial role in upholding societal cohesion. As migration impacts virtually all aspects of life, it continues to require…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-24 Dino Pitoski , Ana Meštrović , Hans Schmeets

Large mobility datasets collected from various sources have allowed us to observe, analyze, predict and solve a wide range of important urban challenges. In particular, studies have generated place representations (or embeddings) from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Takahiro Yabe , Kota Tsubouchi , Toru Shimizu , Yoshihide Sekimoto , Satish V. Ukkusuri

Ubiquitous mobile devices are generating vast amounts of location-based service data that reveal how individuals navigate and utilize urban spaces in detail. In this study, we utilize these extensive, unlabeled sequences of user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xinhua Wu , Haoyu He , Yanchao Wang , Qi Wang